Here's a video featuring Chuck Marohn, Joe Minicozzi and Kevin Klinkenberg from an event earlier this year in Savannah. The extended Q&A is a must-watch.
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I encourage you all to stop using the word sprawl. It doesn't accurately describe the problem, it prevents us from getting to real responses and it unnecessarily divides the national dialog in ways that are unhelpful.
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Strong Citizens may not all be qualified to size a support beam or write the specification for a concrete mixture, but they collectively are the greatest sensors of what is happening in a city.
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Andres Duany is a perpetual motion machine of thoughts and ideas, the intellectual leader of a movement that -- without exaggeration -- has changed the way the world is built.
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The corner store has a mythic place in our view of American cities. Mythic because, in most cities, they exist only in our minds.
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I wish news reporters would stop calling me a Smart Growth advocate.
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If you want to understand Strong Towns thinking, Jared Diamond is a good place to start.
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A system where growth is the main objective will fail, but only after it has exhausted every means to expand consumption.
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Can we only satisfy our needs by increasing our neediness?
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Are we a society of villains or of neighbors?
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We created debt to serve us. Now we serve debt.
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Genesis describes God's labor of creating the heavens and earth and all that is as taking six days. On the seventh day, God rests. God doesn't rest because God needs to be back at the office Monday morning to create another universe. God rests because God is done.
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We've traded stability for growth, but now we find that we have neither.
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It ain't pretty.
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When we build a city worth experiencing, we’re building a place that has enduring wealth.
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In urban America, the federal government is often a helping hand. A difference maker. In rural America, they are the kingmaker, the largest fish in a very small pond.
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Our urban fire departments need urban equipment.
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Engineers in Obetz have built a hamster wheel for walkers and cyclists.
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Today is Super Tuesday. It's also Taco Tuesday at Taco John's. Both will likely give you regrets and leave you feeling nauseous.
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Federal financing rules started out as a way to help people. They’ve now become a mechanism that exploits. There is more to be gained by ending these programs than continuing them.
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